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importance of closing the gender gap, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).
A world where women make up less than 20 percent of the global decision-makers is a
world that is missing a huge opportunity for growth and ignoring an untapped reservoir
of potential, Klaus Schwab, WEF founder and chair, said in a statement. The
Philippines performed favorably in the four categories that determine gender gap. These
are (1) educational attainment, (2) health and survival, (3) economic participation and
opportunity, and (4) political empowerment.
The Philippines got the perfect score of 1, and thus grabbing the first rank, for the first
two categories.
For the first category, the Philippines shares the top rank with 21 other countries,
including the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Australia. The Philippines
favorable performance in the first category comes amid official reports that the number
of females who attend primary, secondary and tertiary education is about the same as
that of males. (In certain levels, females outnumber males.)
Life expectancy
The countrys top rank in the second category shows that women and men in the
Philippines have just about the same life expectancy. Life expectancy is affected by
various factors, such as disease, malnutrition and violence. For the second category,
the Philippines shares the top rank with 37 other countries, including Finland, Lesotho,
Latvia, the Bahamas and Argentina. In the third category of economic participation and
opportunity, the Philippines ranks 15th with a score of 0.763. In this category, countries
are evaluated based on gaps between men and women in terms of work participation,
remuneration and advancement opportunities.
Government positions
In the fourth category of political empowerment, the Philippines ranks 16th with a
score of 0.331. Countries are evaluated in this category based on the gap between men
and women in terms of women-to-men ratio in government positions. The world has
made great progress in eliminating inequality between men and women in health and
education, but not in economic participation and political empowerment, the WEF said.
But no country has closed the gap between men and women when it comes to health
and survival, educational attainment, economic participation and opportunity and
political empowerment.
The annual survey, released at a press conference, showed that over the past six years
about 85 percent of countries have narrowed the gender gap. But in other countries the
gap widened and the situation for women worsened, including in Nigeria, Mali,
Colombia, Tanzania and El Salvador.